Night Watch

Kevin Armstrong’s first collection of short fiction begins and ends with sailing stories, fictionally documenting a geographical journey the author himself undertook. Armstrong spent 15 months sailing in and around the Kingdom of Tonga, where ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

A Reckless Moon

By Dianne Warren

A Reckless Moon explores the lives of middle-class, middle-aged characters undergoing fateful moments that propel them toward an epiphany and a thorough re-evaluation of life. Often set in Prairie cities and their suburbs, the stories ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

★ Open

By Lisa Moore

After millennia of clinging by its fingernails to the edge of North America, Newfoundland is everywhere. It’s on the big screens in The Shipping News and Rare Birds, at the Giller Prize with Michael Crummey’s ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mount Appetite

By Bill Gaston

Bill Gaston’s Mount Appetite is an unsettling collection of 12 short stories that plunges readers into a morass of unfulfilled desires, broken hearts, and lives overwhelmed to the point of destruction by chemical and emotional ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations

By Gayla Reid

The cover of Gayla Reid’s Closer Apart shows a tree viewed from somewhere near the base. From this perspective, it’s impossible not to recognize one’s own relative height and to marvel at the branches – ... Read More »

January 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected

By Diane Schoemperlen

Diane Schoemperlen is something of an acquired taste in the smorgasbord of Canadian fiction, but there’s no doubt that more and more readers are acquiring that taste. After labouring in the obscurity of the literary ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Real Life

By Sharon Butala

We’ve grown used to thinking of evil – if we think of it at all – as something monstrous, destruction you can’t wrap your mind around. Evil is the Holocaust, Sept. 11, war in Rwanda. ... Read More »

January 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Habits and Love

By Rod Schumacher

Many of the characters in Habits and Love, Alberta writer Rod Schumacher’s first collection of stories, are caught deep in the web of their own lives, trying to think and feel their way out to ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Book of Ifs and Buts

By Rabindranath Maharaj

Rabindranath Maharaj has already published three well-received books of fiction, including The Interloper, a story collection nominated for the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book. But while this collection of eight stories and a novella ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ All the Men Are Sleeping

By D.R. MacDonald

D.R. MacDonald is a writer of enormous talent, skill, and, it seems, patience. Like Alistair MacLeod, he hails from Cape Breton, the setting of most of his stories. Also like MacLeod, who at 66 has ... Read More »

January 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Night Watch

A Reckless Moon

★ Open

Mount Appetite

Closer Apart: The Ardara Variations

Red Plaid Shirt: Stories New & Selected

Real Life

Habits and Love

The Book of Ifs and Buts

★ All the Men Are Sleeping

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